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Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
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A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
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Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
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Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
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